| Leafless Silkflower Shrub |
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| Original date | 1/7/20 9:15 AM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
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| Focal length | 51.124mm |
| Exposure time | 1/125s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon PowerShot SX60 HS |
| Sensor type | OneChipColorArea |
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Botanical name: Periploca aphylla Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Leafless Silkflower Shrub is an erect branched shrub
about 1.8-3.0 m tall, generally leafless, juice milky. Leaves, when
present, are 6-7 mm long, ovate-oblong, pointed, thick, nerve obscure.
Flowers are borne in 1.2-2.5 cm long cymes on thick
flower-cluster-stalks, fragrant. Flowers are greenish outside, dark
purple within. Tube very short, petals 2.2-6 mm long, oblong, blunt,
densely hairy near the tip. Corona lobes are about 6 mm long,
thread-like, hairless, recurved at the tip. Sepals are 2.5 mm long.
Bracts are ovate, margin chaffy, breaking off about the middle leaving
the lower portion. Seedpods are 5-10 cm x 5-6 mm, rigid woody, widely
divergent, pointed. Seeds are 6-6.5 mm long, oblong, compressed, coma
about 2.5 cm long. The flower buds are sometimes eaten. The milky juice
in Sind is reputed to have some medicinal properties and the stem
fibres are used for making ropes. Leafless Silkflower Shrub is found in
Sudan, Sinai to Arabian Peninsula and NW India, including Western
Himalaya.
Flowering: March-May.
| Identification credit: Rajkumar Yadav | Photographed in Gujarat. |
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